Fake air hostess jailed for conning three lovers out of thousands

A jobless fraudster who made her three lovers believe she was an international air stewardess has been jailed after conning them out of thousands of pounds.

Web of deceit: One of the three flats serial seducer Stacey Simpson shared in Huddersfield with separate boyfriends (Picture: Ross Parry)

Serial cheat Stacey Simpson, 25, spun a web of lies to convince her boyfriends she was employed by Emirates Airlines when in fact she was unemployed.

Her ruse meant she was able to deceive all three men into thinking she was jetting around the world while she was seeing each of them separately within miles of each other in the same town.

She was sent to prison for ten weeks by Kirklees magistrates in West Yorkshire after pleading guilty to 12 fraud charges at a hearing earlier this month.

Cheat: Stacey Simpson (Picture: Ross Parry)

The most serious dishonesty resulted in her unnamed fireman boyfriend having two of his properties worth a total of £250,000 repossessed because she failed to pay the mortgages and pocketed the money herself.

She also deceived Qatari international student Abdullah Anthani when she rented one of her boyfriend’s flats to him after it had been repossessed, and pocketed his rent.

Prosecutor Howard Shaw said Mr Anthani believed the defendant was his landlord when in fact it was the fireman – referred to as Boyfriend No.1.

When Mr Anthani returned from a holiday in February last year he found the locks had been changed and he was unable to gain access to the flat as it was repossessed.

Six days later, Simpson met him and proceeded to con him out of a further £1,000 by telling him that she needed money for rent and mortgage arrears that didn’t exist.

When he was still unable to get into the property he phoned her and she claimed to be in Singapore working as an air hostess.

In March, Mr Anthani contacted Kirklees council, triggering an investigation involving West Yorkshire police and the Department for Work and Pensions.

The next day Simpson flew to Majorca with Boyfriend No.3 – the day police turned up at her home in Huddersfield where she had been living with Boyfriend No.1.

The court was told that she had in the past also submitted a housing benefit claim for another property where Boyfriend No.2 was joint tenant.